Helluva lot more useful than having them decide who I can marry, what drugs I can take, and what I'm allowed to say on the radio.
Hippie!
Helluva lot more useful than having them decide who I can marry, what drugs I can take, and what I'm allowed to say on the radio.
I thought it was 25,000.Well, the point is that if it gets to 100,000 signatures, the government under its own rules will have to respond
Seriously it's just a phone. Doesn't the US government have better things to worry about?
I thought it was 25,000.
There's also this if you wanna unlock your phone for free after you sign the petition:
http://www.signunlockpetition.com/
The code's SWIFTUNLOCKS
Does it really give you a free unlock?
I'll never understand America and its 'freedom'
Govt cares about the Corporation. they do not care about people!. what is new?
Don't really care for unlocking...
I don't get why need it to be illegal. They could just make the contract exit so expensive that it isn't worth it. You gradually pay off the phone and if you exit in the first few month you pay extra or hand the hardware back.
It is done already they don't need to criminalize anything. In any case I doubt the ban would deter anyone anyway. In some european contracts it is said to be illegal and nobody cares. If it is possible, people end up doing it.
This is exactly why I don't have a smartphone and won't have one anytime soon.
Don't confuse Unlocking (so your phone will run on any cellular service you want just by changing the SIM card) with Jailbreaking (to allow you to install any software you want from any source you want). I support the former. Phones should never be locked. A locked phone is like buying a car and being forced to buy your tires and gas from the dealer. I have no interest in the latter. To me buying only from the iOS App Store is like buying pasteurized milk, it just makes things safer.
Well, the point is that if it gets to 100,000 signatures, the government under its own rules will have to respond. Now, whether they'll actually say anything in their response is another matter.
But they did come out firmly against building a Death Star, so there's that.